On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 05:12:56PM +0200, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > Hi list, > > I am going to build an active active NFS server, where one exports a public > directory, and the other the home directories. In case one fails, both > should be exported by the remaining one server. > I have a shared storage on a SAN, connected to both servers, I use the > Filesystem ocf script to mount/umount the partitions (ext3, ocfs2 doesn't > have ACL's, and I do not get GFS2 to work). Therefore I cannot run a nfs > server clone, because I cannot umount the partition when the nfs server > still lives on it, and the shared IP is wandering. I only see the LSB Script > available for managing the nfsserver, but with the LSB script, only one NFS > server can be started or stopped. > > > So I have to configure two NFS resources using the LSB script, so that both > can life on different servers. But now when I manually tell on nfs resource > to move to another server, then both nfs resources will not be available for > a short time. I also saw some problems when a dead node comes back into the > cluster, also both nfs server resouces were not available for a short time. > > An other option would be to create a OCF script (I haven't found one) to > manage the nfsserver. In the manual page of rpc.mountd I have seen that it > is possible to specify a exports file and the port automatically. But I > don't know what kind of other problems I might get, or whether it will be > possible to run two nfsservers in parallel. > > anybody has an idea?
You can start here: http://linux-ha.org/HaNFS > > kind regards > Sebastian > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems -- Dejan _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
